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The tournament went forward and now for the reveal! There was a way to win most of the time in the game More Than Chance, and it's the same way you can win at guessing coin flips. If you replace the Heads and Tails with Black and Red you get the same situation. HTT beats TTH, and RBB beats BBR. All of these combinations have a one in eight chance of happening, but if you choose the right choice after knowing your oponent's combination, you can choose a combination that steals the combinations that would have been theirs. Find out more here!
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Check out what Google Doodle has to say about Sally Ride and Ada Lovelace. Tell us what was great about them and which scientist/mathematician you like better!
https://www.google.com/doodles/sally-rides-64th-birthday http://www.google.com/doodles/ada-lovelaces-197th-birthday Feel free to check out other Google Doodles here and tell us about the ones you think are great! https://www.google.com/doodles/#archive Math Contest! Who can practice the most new skills in their coming grade on Khan Academy? Final winners announced on Monday.
1st Place: 20 points 2nd Place: 15 points 3rd Place: 10 points 4th place: 5 points 3 points for participating Ratemyprofessor.com is a website where you rank and comment on the teachers you have in college. To check what prejudice ideas there are, you can type in a word and see how often it was used for women teachers, vs. how much it was used for men teachers. Guess what words will be used more for men, and what will be used more for women, and then test it! Tell us the results!
http://benschmidt.org/profGender/#{%22database%22%3A%22RMP%22%2C%22plotType%22%3A%22pointchart%22%2C%22method%22%3A%22return_json%22%2C%22search_limits%22%3A{%22word%22%3A[%22funny%22]%2C%22department__id%22%3A{%22%24lte%22%3A25}}%2C%22aesthetic%22%3A{%22x%22%3A%22WordsPerMillion%22%2C%22y%22%3A%22department%22%2C%22color%22%3A%22gender%22}%2C%22counttype%22%3A[%22WordCount%22%2C%22TotalWords%22]%2C%22groups%22%3A[%22unigram%22]} Make a commercial on your own or with your classmates, trying to sell a made up or existing product! What do you want to sell to us?
Write, or present about a book that you've read! Introduce us to what you're loving about it and grow an even better understanding of the book itself!
Check out dogonews.com for your news on mini dragons
http://www.dogonews.com/2015/4/30/researchers-unveil-three-new-species-of-colorful-miniature-dragons and whether or not video games make people better learners http://www.dogonews.com/2015/5/6/brown-researchers-believe-gamers-are-able-to-learn-visual-tasks-faster-than-non-gamers and many more articles! Tell us what you think about the recent news! When your parents moved to a new house you weren't too happy. You had friends in your old neighborhood and here you know no one. Further your room is teeny tiny, and in it is the teensiest tiniest closet you've ever seen with barely enough room to put a few toys inside. Of course, your feelings about the closet change when you discover that any toy you leave in the closet over night is alive and moving on its own by the morning. Write a story, play, diary, or picture book about your experience!
With a partner or alone, come up with a story and then make a cartoon of the story on Scratch, or on Khan! The best cartoon made by next Thursday will get a bonus 5 points!
Hans Rosling shows really cool stuff about the world using graphs. Check out some of what he found.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty?language=en http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen?language=en You can also check out what you can find yourself on the site gapminder! http://www.gapminder.org/world open graph menu to see a bunch! Want to know how to make a platform game? Put Youtube music in a game?What about making your character lip synch a song? Make beautiful art? Make pokemon? You can learn how to do those and many more on Scratch here! Over a hundred tutorials, many made by kids!
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